Aether Research

In Greek, 'Aithen' means to burn or shine

The word 'aethere' was used by Romans and Greeks to mean the upper air which they regarded as pure and connected to a Sun that was driven through this aethere across the sky during the day, hence the relation to shining and burning (thus luminiferous

Aether is nothing more than a distributed physical medium permeating the entire universe, endowing it [space] with measurable physical qualities

H. A. Lorentz formulated an aether based version of special relativity, known as Lorentz Ether Theory